response #3

This is a response to Christina's "First visit to Hope Community" blog. I was a little jealous about her first visit to the school, because mine went completely differently. Shiza and I took a loooong metro ride to the school, and the only people we saw the whole time were the secretaries. The woman we'd been communicating with, Meredith Henne, was busy the whole time so we didn't see her. THe secretaries gave us a box full of papers to corrolate, put into envelopes, and address. We did this the whole time, in a room with the door shut tight. I knew that we were helping out, but I was disapointed, because I wanted to learn about the school, and I wanted to see the kids, and talk to teachers and administrators. Having Christina's experience, being put into a classroom with a bunch of hyper kids would have been right up my alley.